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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Exposition
Pyrrhic
Metaphor
Narrator
2. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Simile
Comic Relief
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Figurative Language
3. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
1st Person
Theme
Metonymy
Author's Purpose
4. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Falling Action
Villanelle
Setting
Conceit
5. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Tercet
Paradox
Quatrain
Subplot
6. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Onomatopoeia
Stereotype
Narrative Poem
Repetition
7. The person who 'tells' the story.
Satire
Narrator
Style
Denouement
8. The selection of words in a literary work.
Understatement
Aubade
Climax
Diction
9. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Assonance
Complication
Hyperbole
Trochee
10. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Plot
Allusion
Nonfiction
Elegy
11. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Subject
Foot
Audience
Oxymoron
12. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Octave
Repetition
Climax
Analogy
13. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Ode
Rhyme
Couplet
Free Verse
14. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Motif
Elegy
Aside
Satire
15. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Parallelism
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
16. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Synecdoche
Dialogue
Lyric Poem
Parallelism
17. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Stanza
Falling Action
Caesura
Quatrain
18. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Author's Purpose
Falling Meter
Satire
Folklore
19. The main character of a literary work.
Spondee
Dialogue
Pyrrhic
Protagonist
20. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Dramatic Irony
Rhythm
Symbol
Foil
21. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
Flashback
Act
1st Person
22. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Hyperbole
Image
Characterization
Theme
23. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Couplet
Aubade
Convention
Hyperbole
24. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Trochee
Ballad
Theme
Blank Verse
25. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Nonfiction
Stereotype
Oxymoron
Subject
26. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Satire
Parody
Aphorism
Apostrophe
27. The organizational form of a literary work.
Mood
Structure
Scenes
Verbal Irony
28. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Literal Language
Octave
Plot
Metaphor
29. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Free Verse
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Meter
Rhyme
30. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Dialogue
Trochee
Situational Irony
Legend
31. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Sestina
Character
Free Verse
Protagonist
32. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Narrative Poem
Symbolism
Metaphor
Aphorism
33. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Allegory
Connotation
Metonymy
Solioquy
34. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Denotation
Apostrophe
Literal Language
Flashback
35. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Sonnet
Aubade
Allusion
Personification
36. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Stanza
Metaphor
Situational Irony
Villanelle
37. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Subject
Onomatopoeia
Figurative Language
Tone
38. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Myth
Epigram
Repetition
3rd Person (Limited)
39. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Epigram
Symbolism
Villanelle
Oxymoron
40. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Character
Stanza
Allusion
Diction
41. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Quatrain
Aubade
Antagonist
Irony
42. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Denotation
Diction
Theme
Repetition
43. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Antagonist
Image
Hyperbole
Situational Irony
44. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Analogy
Fiction
Lyric Poem
Subject
45. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Tercet
Aside
Spondee
Character
46. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Apostrophe
Act
Octave
Tone
47. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Dialect
Falling Meter
Figurative Language
Aubade
48. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Stanza
Octave
Denouement
Characterization
49. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Elegy
Point of View
3rd Person (Limited)
Repetition
50. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Onomatopoeia
Metonymy
Epic
Repetition